Well I dunno Do you feel that way about the NEA (like Rush Limbaugh did, or at least pretended to) Their operating budget is a good 1/2 order of magnitude lower than NASA's but it's still bread and circuses
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If nothing else, because challenges aren't always solved with just throwing more resources into them. People have individual passions and talents.
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This is also why I think the public/private distinction is misguided If a new Stalin rolled into town and did consolidate that massive universal popularity letting him dictate spending arbitarily as a tyrant Well, he wouldn't be limited to moving the existing sliders around
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If he were powerful enough to just say "Let's defund all of NASA right now and put the money into cancer research" he could ALSO say "Let's defund the movie industry right now and put THAT money into cancer research" (via punitive taxation) It might even involve less paperwork
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This seems more to do with the processes that determine who gets selected President than the power intrinsic to the office
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Enh, six of one It's all one big system
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Appropriations bills are masses of compromises and pork barrel politics. Cutting NASA or any program like it wouldn’t actually have much of a tangible effect on how the US spends money. It probably isn't possible and all you would get in return is a new F-35 factory in Iowa.
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I mean yeah part of the fallacy here is that the federal budget is this fixed-in-size pie so anything you cut from it becomes "available" to move somewhere else That's absolutely not how they see it
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